# cordata-catalog-mcp

> A read-only MCP server over a governed data catalog — the runnable version of cordata.tech's 'catalog is the API' post

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/cordata-catalog-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://cordata.tech
- repository: https://github.com/cordata-tech/catalog-mcp/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- version: 0.3.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:cordata-catalog-mcp

### Description (declared)

# cordata-catalog-mcp

A read-only [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server that answers questions *about* datasets — who owns them, what columns they have, how those columns are classified, and whether a Lake Formation grant would reach them — and never returns a row of the data itself. It serves the example catalog that ships with [`cordata-pipeline-runtime`](https://pypi.org/project/cordata-pipeline-runtime/).

It is the runnable version of a design written up in two posts on cordata.tech. [Fabric + Mesh on AWS — LakeFormation, DataZone, and one governance plane](https://cordata.tech/en/blog/fabric-mesh-on-aws) lays out the reference topology this server is modelled on, with one AWS account per data domain and a governance account that owns the LF-tag ontology and the grants, and closes its [§ 3](https://cordata.tech/en/blog/fabric-mesh-on-aws#s3) by proposing an MCP catalog tool. [The catalog is the API — a governed mesh over MCP](https://cordata.tech/en/blog/governed-mesh-over-mcp) designs that tool: which questions it answers and where its schemas come from, why read-only has to be enforced rather than annotated, and how authorization works. Where this README says "§ N of the post", it means that second post.

Verified against MCP revision **`2026-07-28`**, the Python SDK **`mcp` 2.3**, and `cordata-pipeline-runtime` **0.2.9**. MCP has changed substantially between revisions, so check those three numbers before trusting a detail below against a newer stack.

## Start it

```sh
uvx cordata-catalog-mcp
```

That starts the server over stdio, which is how a desktop or terminal MCP client launches a local server. To give it to a client, add it to the client's server configuration:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cordata-catalog": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["cordata-catalog-mcp"]
    }
  }
}
```

In Claude Code the same thing is one command: `claude mcp add cordata-catalog -- uvx cordata-catalog-mcp`.

Over stdio there is no…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- commerce.ecommerce (1, derived)
- infra.cloud (0.699, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/cordata-catalog-mcp/ (first seen 2026-10-18T16:28:30.709Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/cordata-catalog-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/cordata-catalog-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:cordata-catalog-mcp